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82
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82
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82
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81
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81
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80
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79
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78
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77
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74
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74
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74
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70
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70
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69
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Moon
65
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65
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64
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64
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63
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54
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54
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52
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50
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48
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45
Whatever Works
42
Little Ashes
42
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40
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40
Paris 36
38
Gigantic
36
Life is Hot in Cracktown
35
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28
Big Shot-Caller, The
28
Surveillance
22
What Goes Up
18
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16
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xx
Call of the Wild
xx
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xx
Offshore
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Circuit
Swift Distribution
MPAA RATING: Not Rated
Starring
JM J. Bullock,
Jonathan Wade-Drahos,
Andre Khabbazi,
William Katt,
Kiersten Warren,
Daniel Kucan,
Nancy Allen,
and
Bruce Vilanch
John is an ex-cop who leaves small-town life and provincial attitudes behind for a new existence in West Hollywood. As he seeks an open, accepting gay life, John is introduced to the fast-paced Circuit Party scene, featuring beautiful people and a tantalizing mixture of sex and drugs. (Circuit, LLC)
| GENRE(S): |
Drama
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Gregory Hinton
Dirk Shafer
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Dirk Shafer
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: December 10, 2002
Video: December 10, 2002
Theatrical: April 26, 2002
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| RUNNING TIME: |
90 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
70
Variety
Robert Koehler
All-encompassing drama.

70
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
At once a sexy soap opera, at times lurid and bathetic, and also a gritty cautionary tale made by a filmmaker honest enough to have it both ways.

60
New Times (L.A.)
David Ehrenstein
When Circuit is on its game it's very telling and where it's at its best is detailing just how difficult it is for men so hedonistically self-involved to love one another.
50
Chicago Reader
Fred Camper
Shafer (himself a former Playgirl centerfold) never quite manages the incisive social critique his story seems to require.

50
TV Guide
Ken Fox
With its thumping soundtrack, absence of body hair and a camera that practically pants over every bulge, curve and crack of the male form, the film is really closer to porn than a serious critique of what's wrong with this increasingly pervasive aspect of gay culture.

50
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
If anyone wants to watch naked men in the shower, naked men doing erotic dancing, naked men in bed and almost-naked men pumping iron, this is the film to see.

50
Chicago Tribune
Loren King
It makes the viewer wonder whether Circuit would have been stronger as a documentary instead of the well-intentioned, overlong, intermittently entertaining but flawed feature that it is.

50
The New York Times
Dana Stevens
There is a real subject here, and it is handled with intelligence and care.

40
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Nathan Rabin
As slick and attractive as its cast. But the movie gets away from Shafer.

40
LA Weekly
Chuck Wilson
Mostly, Shafer and co-writer Gregory Hinton lack a strong-minded viewpoint, or a sense of humor, about a world in which the DJ has the power to unify, if only for a night, men of godlike beauty and the mortals who worship them.

38
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
The movie's strongest draw is its kitsch value -- along with a wisecracking Bruce Vilanch, the cast includes '80s TV refugees Jm J. Bullock ("Too Close for Comfort") and the Greatest American Hero himself, William Katt.
25
Boston Globe
Christopher Muther
Like ''Showgirls'' and ''Glitter,'' the most entertaining moments here are unintentional.

25
New York Post
V.A. Musetto
Dirk Shafer's feature doesn't offer much in terms of plot or acting. But it does have oodles of hunky male bodies. The choice is yours.

20
Austin Chronicle
Marrit Ingman
It's too bad Shafer spent his budget making a fiction feature instead of just shooting a documentary about the scene. So much of the film is melodramatic kitsch, but there's still a movie in here.

10
Village Voice
Dennis Lim
Even from deep in a K-hole, you'd need about 10 seconds to figure out the remaining plot twists in this jaded muscle-queen morality tale.


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